About

Introduction

Karo2 (pty) ltd (reg. 2024/114036/07) specialises in Enterprise and Solution Architecture in the central banking space (as well as RTGS and express payments processing) and deep learning or AI (artificial intelligence) space.

The company was founded by Marius J. Conradie in the first quarter of 2024. The name originates from a beautiful region in South Africa consisting of several regions commonly referred to as the Karoo (there’s a few karoo regions with different references, klein karoo, upper karoo etc). The name suggest the Karoo and also oxygen (O2) hence Karo2.

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Client highlights

  • Payments Canada: Enterprise, solution and application architect on the Lynx project
    • System design
    • Network architecture
    • Open Banking API design and security modeling
    • Enterprise level authentication and authorisation product solution design (including security and on-boarding process flows)
    • RTGS system with transition to ISO-20022 (or SWITFT MX message format) from ISO-15022 (or SWIFT MT message format)
  • Central Bank of Island (Iceland): Enterprise and solution architect on project to redesign express payments system to a microservices solution with proposed hosting strategies to transition market gradually to new ISO20022 (Swift MX) message format.
  • Central bank of United Arab Emirates: Enterprise, network and solution architect involved in preparing request for proposal (project awarded) to provide a microservices based private cloud solution for an express payments system with consideration for distributed data centers architected to provide disaster recovery and zero loss of data and payment instruction processing.

(More highlights will be added in due time)

Experience

  • 25 Years in software development
  • 23 Years in software architecture
  • 10 Years in application architecture
  • 10 Years in solution architecture
  • 3 Years in enterprise architecture
  • 4 Years in Central banking systems
  • 4 Years in RTGS (Real time gross settelement systems)
  • 4 Years in express payment systems or instant payment systems implemented from central banking side
  • 4 Years in open banking API architecture, security and network architecture design
  • 4 Years in Central Securities Depositories (CSDs)
  • 12 Years experience in deep learning designs (a.k.a. AI models, training and solutions)
  • 29 Years experience in machine learning (artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, linear regression and logistical regression)
  • 7 Years experience in tech startup architecture, business analysis and software engineering consultation work

You can learn more about the founder on LinkedIn.